The Game of School is played when “nobody cares what’s going on intellectually in the classroom” (93), when kids participate only enough to get through the class. Students care only about their grades and not about learning or understanding the material. The Game of School is played by nearly everyone, both teachers and students. Personally, I have definitely been a player of this game. There have been classes where I am only willing to do the minimum to please my teachers and achieve my desired letter grade. I also know for a fact that I was not the only one, nor the biggest offender. Once one begins the game, it is a major struggle to stop. Through many classes I have thought to myself, what is the point of learning this stuff? How could doing this work possibly benefit me? Why did my teacher even assign this to me? Assignments that pose questions like these are the ones where I was a culprit of playing the Game of School. I realize now that most things are assigned for a reason, that just getting through those classes actually did hurt me academically. It is much more beneficial to engage in authentic learning. As a future teacher, I it my hope to change students’ outlook on assignments. I wish to make my class interesting so that my students really do want to learn the material. But for the most part, students are completely in control of their own academic success. If you master the Game of School and do your work just to get through a class, then you are lowering the quality of your own education. This is because by doing this, you are not allowing yourself the full opportunity to engage in deep learning.